Comments on: OH FOR GOD’S SAKE, STOP IT

By: Watcher

Watcher — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:00:35 +0000

“Why did he pick the Holocaust Museum?”

Because he’s a Holocaust denier who hates Jews.

“Why did he wear a confederate flag hat?”

That’s a good question… I’m not aware of him having ever lived anywhere in the south. Maybe he just wanted to piss off black people.

“Why did he write a missive that the american right never acts, all they do is talk?”

I don’t know… was it meant as criticism from someone on the outside looking in? If he was self-identifying as being part of the right with that statement, I have a hard time reconciling that with his advocacy of race-based socialism and his contempt for capitalism… not to mention his wacky anti-Christian views.

“Why did he opine that white men are being laughed at by blacks and jews and that can’t be tolerated?”

Ummm… because he hates blacks and jews? Why do you keep harping on his bigotry as if that’s all you need to prove someone is a right winger? You’ve never seen any bigotry on the left?

By: funny man

funny man — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:12:13 +0000

I know this is not the right place but I feel very sad now. Iran is an old, very cultured country and a lot of the young and educated people are sooo fed up with the daily grind of a repressive regime. I know a lot of Americans don’t really know what it means to live in a country like that. I also don’t know what to do but want to show my solidarity with the protesters. Here are some pics from the Spiegel:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-43381-2.html#backToArticle=630328

By: Left-Wing, Right-Wing, Chicken-Wing, Paul McCartney and Wings « Around The Sphere

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:51:04 +0000

[...] Rick Moran: I will freely grant this this guy is a man of the extreme right. To posit the notion, as many on the left have been doing the last few days, that this guy has any connection whatsoever either in his philosophy or ideology with mainstream conservatism is ludicrous. It is equally fanciful to blame “right wing hate speech” emanating supposedly from mainstream conservative media outlets for this guy’s actions. The idea that von Brunn needed any motivation at all beyond his sick, twisted, personal extremist ideology and whatever demons possessed him ignores reality – about what we’ve come to expect from the “reality based community.” [...]

By: Augustine

Augustine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:26:59 +0000

@ Watcher

Why did he pick the Holocaust Museum? Why did he wear a confederate flag hat? Why did he write a missive that the american right never acts, all they do is talk? Why did he opine that white men are being laughed at by blacks and jews and that can’t be tolerated? Yeah, he’s a flaming red diaper liberal that guy.

By: Augustine

Augustine — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:16:07 +0000

@ Dale

If what John Cole posted on his blog is correct, Mr. Vonn Brunn entered the museum with a confederate flag hat and left a note in his car that said the American Right Wing is all talk and no action. Why did this man even feel comfortable identifying and associating any of his ideas with the american right?

With the Abdul Hakim shooting it was pretty linear for many conservative bloggers and pundits, black guy = dem = liberal = shot a U.S. Army recruiter = typical american hating lefty. LMAO. Somehow that tu quoque defense isn’t really satisfying is it?

By: cleek

cleek — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:22:43 +0000

how could there be any doubt that he’s not a liberal? just read his manifesto. he HATES liberals (and Jews and Marxists, and lumps all three of them together into “LIBERALISM/MARXISM/JEWRY” whenever he mentions them.

By: Right Wing Extremists

Right Wing Extremists — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:17:50 +0000

[...] Rick Moran: Conservatives trying to make the case that the Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn is some kind of liberal or leftist sympathizer are tilting at windmills: [...]

By: Calming Influence

Calming Influence — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:00:23 +0000

Extremes are exactly that - extremes. As a proud progressive liberal, I would no more think of burning down a research lab for animal rights than I would think that 99.999% of conservatives would advocate shooting a security guard at a holocaust museum. But I’d be ridiculed if I tried to say the Animal Liberation Front was a right wing group. When you go around the bend, it doesn’t really matter which end you went around.

By: busboy33

busboy33 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:49:16 +0000

“Taking a dump into a water well just to hear the turds echo when they hit bottom is a pastime for village idiots”

Conceeded, but you have to admit that if I could play “Chopsticks” like that you’d be pretty friggin’ impressed. And disgusted.
The balance between the two would depend on how well you can see my artistic genius, obviously.

Seriously though, I’m stealing that line. Whether I credit you, John Wayne, or Yogi Berra is going to depend on my mood at the time of use.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:18:22 +0000

It is equally fanciful to blame “right wing hate speech” emanating supposedly from mainstream conservative media outlets for this guy’s actions.

It’s peculiar how that works; Hollywood can corrupt our children with their images, and video games and music can turn teens into stonecold killers, but calling abortion doctors ‘murderers’ and saying the President is a terrorist-lover obviously can have no effect on anyone at all.